Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Madonna and Child with Six Saints
Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) · late 1440s

Saint Philip Seated, Holding a Book and a Cross
Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano) · 1422–57

The Crucifixion
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · ca. 1420–23

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s

Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

The Annunciation
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · 1437–44

Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1500

The Flight into Egypt
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s

Processional Crucifix
Pietro di Francesco Orioli · ca. 1480s
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 95 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 18:32 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.